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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1921)
V V | OWN YOUR HOME t E. M. DAVIS REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS V Y 7 '• X Houses For Hale on Small Payments Dow n Y t From $150 to $200 and up • | * 2530 Grant St. Phone Webster 2420 % t % <k~xkK'<~x-**x~x-x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x*>x~x~x~x**X"X“X~x~x~x~x>*: X~XK~X"X“X“X*,X-X~X~X“X~X~X~X“X"X~X*,X'*X“X*,X**X"X~X"X"X* I Big Sale Now On! ! at the LEADER STORE \ V V | South Omaha has never witnessed f | such a slaughter of prices as we are | making in this sale : : : | ❖___ Men’s Suits $12.45 and up t Men’s Overcoats Special at 9.95 | and up Ladies’ Suits Values up to]$40, at $14.95 V Ladies’ Cloth Coats | Values up to $29.00 31 1 $9.95 V r-j X Hundreds of Items at Equally Low Prices. Come early X X and get your choice. X ! The Leader store j £ Opposite Post Office So. Side .VV%V.V.SV.V.V//W.V^.V.,.,,V.V.,.V.V^.,.VAVA,/A,.V*; :; USE ? IDENTLOj The Pyorrhea-Preventive Tooth-Paste f •I None Better ;I V MANUFACTURED BY T HE Jj •: Kaffir Chemical Laboratories Nebraska i It Pays to Advertise in the Monitor J Nebraska Civil Rights Bill I Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statute!? ol Nebraska, Civil Rights. Knacted in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. Ail persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amuse ment; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. Penalty for Violatkn of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall /or each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs ol the prosecution. -The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs. State, 25 Xebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with refreshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civilly li able, though he offers to Berve him by setting a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs. Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” ' ’ LK* LISTEN HERE, KIDSI No Exams, No Home Work hi These Public Schools. i ! Evanston Superintendent Announce* New Regime Which Includes Mu sic, Folk Dance* and Movie*. Evanston. 111.—Music is just as Im portant ns the multiplication tuble and folk dancing is as great a spur to youthful brain* as is geography, in ♦ lie i‘pinion of Frederick NY. Nichols, superintendent of school district No. 7(1. comprising the South Evanston schools, who announced a new regime for the Lincoln, tt'.kioii. Central and Washington grade schools. Tin fun, schools will he open to the pupils front S ttW) o'clock in the morning until ten at night. Classes' will Inst until 3:31) in the afternoon, but pupils will he permitted to go home at any hour their parents de- J sire. "1 tint going to eliminate home work.” said Superintendent Nichols. “It is the bugbear of school children. And there will lie no examinations;1 they merely worry the youngsters. The students will tlo all their scholas tic work right in the classrooms." In addition, the schools will remain open until ten o’clock In the evening for special classes In manual training, i music, languages, art, dramatics, ath-i ietlc games, folk dances, domestic science and movies. The parents will be Invited to come to these classes with their children. “Examinations are an unhealthy, antiquated tyranny,” added Snperin leudetir Nichols. “Crowing children should not he compelled to sit in class rooms all day and then lug hooks home for night lessons. You can’t get an estimate of a child’s mental equipment by Insisting that he cram a lot of facts In his head and scribble as many as he <nn remember on the semester exam papers. “I’m going to teach ftp-se youngsters to think for themselves Dancing amt tousle lessons will he mental tonics. By the new classes prplls will gain self-reliance, a love of school life, and agile minds." - lSTLR OF OTHELLO KOI N TREE, SR.. PASSES AW AT Mrs. Leona Saunders-Kelly. sister of Othello Rountree, Sr., died at St. Joseph’s hospital last Saturday mor ning, after a comparatively brief ill ness. Mrs. Kelly who was thirty-sev “it years of age at her death, came to live with her brother when a child ot ten years, and so was reared and ed ucated in this city. She was a resi lient of Sheridan, Wvo.. for the pact; few years, but returned to Omaha i about six weeks ago. The funeral j j v.-as held Wednesday, afternoon from ! the Chapel of the Silas Johnson Wes | lent F’uneral Home, the Rev. O. J. Uurckhardt officiating. THE V A. A. < . I*. The regular weekly meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. was held at St. Paul’ : Presbyterian church last Sunday after noon, with President Black, presiding. Steps were taken to raise funds to assist in the fight for justice for Elaine peonage victims. A communication i ,- telegraphed Congressman Jefferi, and Senator Hitchcock and Norris urg | ing them to use their influence to se cure passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch ing Hill. The next meeting will be held Sun day afternoon at the Church of St Philip the Deacon at which the offi cers will present their annual report prior to the election of officers which ! will take place the following Sunday j / full attendance is urged. FOR RENT—Modern rooms 1 block from car line. Prices' $5.00 and $5.50 per week. Call Mrs. Patton, 2506 Maple St. Webster 6768. I I i pain , headache, backache and ■ all other aches are quickly re | lieved by I Dr- Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills Contain no dangerous habit forming drugs. Why don’t you ( try them? Ask your druggist I ■ .— ■ ■■■■■■' i i ■■■■■'■■ ENDS “SHRIMP DANCE” Modern Machinery Does Away With Picturesque Custom Sun Dried Shrimps Were “Chucked" to Music of Banjo Plunked in Weird Minor Key, Ni-u Orleans. i Mu* to tin* inroads ef modern machinery, the “shrimp dance," mie of lho picturesque bits of rout me that for years Im - marked thp work on llte shi iiiip-di yiti't platforms along the Louisiana south coast, this year goes Into the lumber room of mettiof'es to join other quaint customs Of bygone years Machinery hereafter will “chuck” tlie sun-dried shrimps. To the tourist who have ventured down into the wilderness of low-lying marshes, where the shrimp platforms gather in tlie* cargoes of Ihe trawlers, the “shrimp dance” Ims ever been a colorful mentor}. United in salt wilier in great copper vats, dried in the sunshine to rubbery resiliency, the shrimps liave been swept up Into huge circles In the past years. Then, while guitar or banjo or accor dion wailed and plunked a dancing strain in a weird minor key, the husk.v platform worker- hands on hips, havi shuttled over the circular piles of shrimp. I’.enenth their tread the brit tle shells crackled into fragment-. Following the dunce tin* pinkish shrimp meat was shoveled .through great screens, tin* brittle -hell frag ments falling through, while the piles of dried fish were packed In barrels. The shrimp Industry In Louisiana has grown to greater porportlons rliiui Is generally known. I Hiring the sen-on of 1 !>'_’<t. 20.710 jierson* were supported by the Industry, more than SI .000.000 were invested in shrimp fleets, and the catch vvas li-'ted by government ofiieitiJa a! 28.ikt0.000 pound®. JAMES !. FOUNDED GOLF DLUB Oldest 0 roan i rat'(o' of Kind in Eng land Boast 200 Years Con tinuous Existence. London. The oldest gidf club In the world, founded ;n look by James T of Kngland end VI. of Scotland. Is -illl used todnv nt Itlackheath. the home of the Koval Tllaekbenth club. Ties . hih was es'Mbl'stied 127 years he fore the Kdlnlairgh Burgess (lolling society and 140 years before even thp Kina' and And. t chib whs formed The course at lllaekheatb today Is simitar to what It vvtt- when James and Id- cronies went there for ever* else 'Hie emir e consists of “even holes which have to lie played tliree times for a complete medal round. There are no aweinspiring bunkers and the hazards consist of Iron rn1! Ings lamp po-ts, nurse tnalds and (dllldren. T t.e clubhouse ts s museum of his toric treasures relating to the game nod there Is a set of dubs 200 years n'd la the collection Is an Iron dub more than four feet tong with a head a« big as a two-handed bnttte aye Ancient trad'tlons are maintained at eluti dinners, members wear their red coats and there Is hefting on who will sneeze most when the old snuff hog Is pss-ed nhotlt. WIDOW NEED NOT TELL ALL Failure to Tell Husband of Former Children Is Upheld In Nebraska Court. Minn litre Neb Henry f. Blond hn«! oe man has found out that Vphrs«ln courts do nor consider It el trenie cruelty for a wife to deceive him a*- I., the number of her offsnrlng hv r previous ion-ring* and to quarter the sanie njKm him. Blood, who is 53. eot Info corre spondence with b widow In Maryland through n matrimonial new-iper ad vertlsement. became enamored of her and went back east and married her. Tic was led to believe, he nays, that she had no encumbrances, hut soon after they --ptled down here her children by a former marriage began to turn up until seven of them bad appeared to board with him. He said that It cost him a lot more than he could earn to support all that number, and none of them showed any desire to become a wage-earner lie sued for a divorce, hut lost FRENCH MARRIAGES DOUBLE Birth Rate Shows Gain Over 1913 Deaths Decrease Say Official Figures. Pari*.—The nnmher of marriage* In France has doubled, the number of births Increased, while fewer death* are registered In 1920 than In 1913. the last full year of peace. Thla hi ! shown by the official figures Just published by the ministry of labor. The excess birth over deaths In 1920. was 159.790, as compared to ri8.9M In 1913. The marriages totaled 023,809 In 1920 against 312.030 In 1913. The significance of these figure* la Increased when It I* remembered that the total population of France ha* decreased as a result of The war. Tiger and "Trick*" HI* Asset*. New York.—One tiger valued at $500 and a box of tricks worth the same amount are listed among ihe a“set* of Horace Goldin, theatrical magician, In a bankruptcy petition filed In the United StHtes court here. Mr, Goldin said the tiger and the trick* h*d helped him accumulate debt* of $87,776 la tfcn laat two years. Beautiful Literary Passage*. There are paaaagea In Milton, Shake •peaire and Wordsworth In which tha mere cadence of the words la by Itself delicious to a delicate ear. though wa cannot tall how and why. We arc con scious of a strange, dreamy sees* of enjoyment such a* one feels when lis tening In the night-time to the patter ing of rain upon the roof, or when ly ing upon the grass In a June evening, while a brook tinkle* over the atonea j among the sedge* and trees.—From “Literary Style," by William Mathews. j \ THE MONITOR CLASSIFIED COLUMN ATTORNEYS I .T . T . . . PIATTI & WEAR ATTOKNKYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Phone Dougina 4508 1017-20 City Nat'l Hank Bids Lambert, Shot well & Shotwell ATTORNEYS Omaha National Bank Bldg. Phone AT lantic 5104 Notary Public In Office and Counsellor N. W. WARF Attorney at Law Practicing in Beth State and Fed eral Courts 111 South 14th St. Omaha. Neb. BEAUTY PARLORS. } BE YOUrTwN BOSS. The SAVONA SYSTEM j of dressing taught by Mrs. | Beatrice A. Wilson will enable you to make big money. Men | and women you can make money J selling Savona Toilet Preparations and Savona Mud best treatment for lumbago and sialic rheuinatism. Agents Wanted — Annly MBS HE ATRII'L A. WILSON i 251 fi Corby st. Wehater 5557 [ ..»«——»»»■—»■»#»»»*»—»«<#•——«ee—eeanee—a———ee—» CLCHUNG CT «irnmw* «.o'i.*..(*«■ toil.* mmmmm* mt. ... C. J. Carlson SHOES 1514 N. 241 li St. "Same Local Ion SI Years” (tor. Alley) ■HMRum.im. nnimiMHu.ew.Mei.nn.im ms..«i..iihmiuu. ... w»HMM DRUG STORES MiuiiimHii:BiiumitinMtitimMitniiMiitiiiiiiiim«<iiHiiimiitiMitHi>tti'iHiiiiMtti s Liberty Drug Company H. Robinson, Mgr. Webster H.'isil. I'.ml > 21th si I REE DELIVERY s s ..... non....Him..mil...ii.t»Min.tH.i»..i.n».i<..m»i....m..mit.,.».»...tit.iMitt.ir MllllllillllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIH jg Best Drugs, Sodas and Sundries ~ E in City | FEOFLES DRUG STORE f — P’omrt Service * — ~ 111 So. 14th St. Jack. 1445 S lifiiiiiifiiiiiiiiii miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitii c*hone AT lantic 5104 fS.~W. Meigs & Co. REAL ESTATE, RENTALS AND INSURANCE 111 Sooth ,4th St. Omaha, Neb. (MELCHOR- Druggist! The Old Reliable l l,.| south K07 482# So. 24th St. . . E. A. NIELSEN Upholstering Co. Furniture Repairin'/. Mattress Renovating “We handle a complete line of Hedsprings and Mattres ses at reasonable prices." 191.'5-15 Cuming Str. 5 Jackson 0861 ? ' % | WANTED FOR COLORED f MOTION PICTURES •I* GIRLS AND YOUNG MEN to A !? play in our Super-Feature Y “Fought and Won” * NO EXPERIENCE NECKS- | £ sary X This j, YOUR CHANCE lo gel 4 y in the “MOVIES.” y X Anyone between the ages of 18 f to 30 considered. y 2 SALARIES ? 2 *30.00 to *75.00 weekly and trav Y cling expenses y y Write al once y | GATE CITY FEATURE FILM ? y COMPANY £ 1701 East 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. y y Enclose stamps for reply X i 1 ! | Phones—Office Web. 5036—Res. Y Web. 5406 <. From Early Mom Until Late at 4 I Night y “Taxi at Your Service” A HORTR ERR EXPRESS CO. | A. F. ALLEN, Prop. % Trucks for Either Light or X Heavy Hauling t We Haul Anything, Anywhere jr 2010 N. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. A FURNITURE. STOVES, FITXURES Second hand or New Repairing Hauling Everything Needed in Home WEST END FURNITURE CO. R. B. RHODES, Prop. 2522 Lake St. MUSIC. j Record* Exchanged, 15 cent*. Lat» est Mamie Smith record* alwayt i on hand. SHLAES PHONOGRAPH CO. 1404 Dodfle_ftt._I1 ELECTRIC SUPPLIES IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII*A Hughes Battery Station E 24th ft Seward Sts. Web (300 = FREE SERVICES = Batteries called for and de- E. E tivered. We carry all the =| E makes of batteries. Be- E E pairing and Recharging. = = Omaha Garage E i Tiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinm -— GROCERIES AM) MEAT MAR- i KETS The Burdette Grocery T. G.' KELLOGG. Prop. Full line of Groceries and Meats Quick Sales and Small Profits Our Method 221 ft No. 24th St. Web. O.'.l.i we seii Skinner's the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti, Egg Noodles and *'*U|*' Marwrnnl Prorluct*. HARDWARE iL, i ,t[flgfgB ^___ ! (Petersen & Micftelsen Hardware Co. ♦ | FOOD HARDWARE 4 * 12408 N St. Tel. South ‘-----j I LAUNDRIES v Eli»lm E. #, Stiermar Standard Laundry 24th, Near Cake Street Phone Webster 130 I EMERSON’S LAUNDRY ? | J i he Laundry That Suits All I i ; j 1301 No. 21th St. Web. 0820 j I I »'«| 9 • • Q ■* '».<■ ] 1 EVANS MODEL LAUNDRY « Forty-five years in the business j IJth & Dottglu- Douglas 024^ — - • . .. . . . I -, PAINTS, ETC. i Best Paint Made For Less Money ' Mullin Paint Co. 313 S. 14th Street FURNITURE A. F. PEOPLES PAINTING I’APKKHANGING AND DECOR\TING Estimates furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. Full Line ol .Wall Paper and Sherwin-Williams Paints and Varnishes 2119 Lake St. Webster fi36fi [PRINTERS ESTAURA . | Eagle Cafe; I-ake and 27th Street .: SPECIAL CHICKEN DIN-f NER SUNDAYS AND 3 THURSDAYS Phone Webster 3247 | ^ (ihas. Hemphill Prop. | ifeKWWWttHM.it turtt >uai>uani»wi?a; SPORTING (. I The TOWNSEND GUN CO { J Sporting, Outing and Athletic i (Jimiii r i 1514 I'nniam St. Douglas 0870 -{ .—f ^ ^ t t t , , 9 SEED STORES VV«* lint a Complete Line of FLOW KK.CK \" -J_ AND C.uRDKN ^ *- C Cl S Kill ha. Hardy Perennial*. Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flower* always uo hand Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp Poat Offico Phone Dnuglaa 977 -—--... ■ ■ .-I UNDERTAKERS .litiHtlllHtlllllitiliHfiifilliMliiliii Allen Joneo, Res. Phone W. 2*4 JONES & CO. funeral parlor 2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100 Lady Attendant W.VAVW.V.V/AV//W.V,' £ The Weslern Funeral Home > ;! Pleases f And will serve you niifht and day ,■ ■" W'11 I-»ke St. Phone Web. 02-Ul t > SILAS JOHNSON, Prop. f ■P FUNERAL HIKE C l ORS ■" i U|5 F" Mlsso'irl Valley hiud,th M1i- M*etl1 every second and JlJ.u.r,d,,ly n'«h,e each month at 24th and Charles Sts J D CRUM. N. G, M. L. HUNTER, P N. F W B TURNER P ft I BLUES! BLUES! ! \ — == | j % Did you jret your DOWN HOME HI.UES? It’s a record X \X w ith a kick in it. Well, We Have'em. We have just received a new shipment of 8a*aphone blues by MAMIE SMITH. ;j; X Also a larue assortment of Jazz Music of all kinds. X % f Come in and let us play them for you. We have also ff VICTOR VICTROLAS from *2.'» to $275 | AT YOUR OWN TERMS | Sol Lewis Music Parlors f | 1824 N. 244th St Web. 2042 ;!; <